Forenoon

Fore′noon′

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Noun.

The early part of the day, from morning to meridian, or noon.

Forenoon

FO'RENOON

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Noun.

The former part of the day, from the morning to meridian or noon. We usually call the first part of the day, from the dawn to the time of breakfast, or the hour of business, the morning, and from this period to noon, the forenoon. But the limits are not precisely defined by custom.

forenoon

English

Noun

forenoon ‎(plural forenoons)

The time period between dawn and noon; morning.
- 1910, Erwin Rosen, In the Legion, HTML edition, The Gutenberg Project, published 2012:
  A hot sun burned down on us. Ten times during a single forenoon every stitch of clothes on one's body was soaked with perspiration, and ten times it dried again.
- 2003, Timothey Field Allen, Handbook Of Materia Medica & Homoeopathic Therapeutics, HTML edition, B. Jain Publishers, ISBN 9788170214434:
  Desire to be alone in forenoon.

Translations

the time period between dawn and noon

Bulgarian: предиобед m ‎(prediobed)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 午前 (zh) ‎(wǔqián)
Czech: dopoledne (cs) n
Danish: formiddag (da)
Dutch: voormiddag (nl)
Finnish: aamupäivä (fi)
French: matinée (fr) f, avant-midi (fr) m (Canada)
German: Vormittag (de) m
Hungarian: délelőtt (hu)

Icelandic: árdegi (is), fyrirmiðdagur
Japanese: 午前 (ja) ‎(ごぜん, gozen)
Macedonian: претпладне n ‎(prétpladne)
Norwegian:

Bokmål: formiddag (no) m

Nynorsk: formiddag m
Portuguese: manhã (pt) f
Russian: вре́мя до полу́дня n ‎(vrémja do polúdnja), дополу́денное вре́мя n ‎(dopolúdennoje vrémja), у́тро (ru) n ‎(útro)
Scots: forenuin
Swedish: förmiddag (sv) c
Walloon: divant-nonne (wa) m, f, divant-l'-dinner (wa) m

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Forenoon

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Forenoon

FO'RENOON

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